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Search phrase: failing

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CymbelineCym I.i.21For one his like; there would be something failingFor one, his like; there would be something failing
CymbelineCym II.iv.7I barely gratify your love; they failing,I barely gratifie your loue; they fayling
CymbelineCym V.v.57But, failing of her end by his strange absence,But fayling of her end by his strange absence,
OthelloOth II.i.291Or failing so, yet that I put the MoorOr fayling so, yet that I put the Moore,
Timon of AthensTim I.i.102To those have shut him up, which failingTo those haue shut him vp, which failing,
Timon of AthensTim IV.iii.462Full of decay and failing? O monumentFull of decay and fayling? Oh Monument

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droopingfailing, decaying, faltering
faultfailing, weakness
lapsingslipping, collapsing, failing

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failingdrooping
failinglapsing
failingfault

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